Bob and I completed a 10.6 Mile segment of the Bay Area Ridge Trail yesterday. Huckleberry Staging Area to Bort Staging Area (Sibley to Redwood). Great weather for a hike.
Observations: Bald Eagle! 1000’s of ladybugs near MacDonald Staging Area, fiery rings from some large Redwoods (near Redwood Bowl), monument describing how Rainbow Trout were first named from a fish collected in San Leandro creek, gold finches, a few poppies, lots of monkey flower. Wide range of bio-diversity zones: from hillsides covered with ferns (in the Huckleberry Preserve and some other secluded slopes), to sparsely populated chaparral areas in the “lower” elevations.
